Your body is the servant of your mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether you deliberately choose them (e.g., your emotions) or whether they happen automatically (e.g., normal breathing or heart function). When you prolong your negative thoughts, your body sinks into disease and decay. Command of proper, positive and beautiful thoughts clothes your body with youthfulness, vitality and beauty.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are influenced by your thoughts. Unhealthy thoughts will express themselves through a weak and ill body.

Negative thoughts quickly demoralize your whole body and leave it vulnerable to the entrance of disease. Negative thoughts can also shatter your nervous system. Thoughts such as fear and stress continually kill thousands of people every year.

Studies have demonstrated that stress causes physical symptoms such as high-blood pressure, back pain and sleep disorders. It also leads to emotional (e.g., lack of concentration, substance abuse and more) and relationship issues (e.g., needless arguments, domestic violence, etc.).

Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up your body with vitality and grace. Your body is a delicate and flexible instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts that are impressed upon it. Habits of thought produce their own effects on your body, both good and bad. When you generate positive thoughts, your body begins to more easily circulate its natural, life-enriching energy, called Qi-energy. When your natural energy is able to better circulate within your body, it begins to heal and strengthen your organs and other parts of your body. The effect becomes additive and your mind become clearer, generat-ing more positive thoughts, more positive energy and more Qi flow.

Recent scientific evidence has proven the power of the mind and its thoughts on the health of the body, in recuperation and in lessening pain. In fact, studies in Integrative Medicine have estab-lished that the mind, body and spirit are all active “ingredients” for overall well being and good health, and critical in preventing disease or living well with chronic disease.

So it can be said that thoughts that lead to mental wellness have a strong impact on healing and physical health. Thought is the origin of action, life, and personal expression. When your daily thoughts are centered on stress, anxiety, anger and fear your mind and energy becomes blocked. When the energy channels, or meridi-ans, in your body are blocked, then your organs, nerves, ligaments and other vital areas suffer.

Change of diet, taking more vitamins, or taking the latest “magical (insert color here) pill”, advertised during your favorite television show, alone will not help the person who has not changed his thoughts.